The Results are IN!!!

This Ladies and Gentlemen is my perfect son. He has clean urine! His kidney(s) are not shutting down and if he's small then he's small but so far...it looks like he's eating to many bananas and high potassium foods! I can always handle eliminating some of those foods as long as my little beautiful healthy sweet boy is ok! It's funny, when Lane was diagnosed, I knew what was coming. I knew it was coming on for some time it was like mothers instincts had kicked in and I knew he would be diagnosed with diabetes that day...and it was ok because I sent Todd and Lane to town that morning specifically to test for diabetes and when they did it would be positive and life would change forever, but Ethan was different...I didn't know...I couldn't research anything or ask any questions because I didn't know what to ask or research. So I just had to wait...and wait...if he has a problem with his thyroid...well in this family who doesn't...I can do thyroid...but kidneys...wow. I'm releived and happy and ready to take on anything else that might be thrown at us...and this is really random and a bit all over the place...sorry!

This doesn't even look like Ethan...

Ethan doesn't even usually look like this. I had to look a few times to figure out this is Ethan! In fact it looks so different that I had to print it off the cameria to make sure it is him! I don't know if it was the hair or the funny faces...even though these are all new normal looks for him...it just doesn't look like him!

It can always get worse!

It can...I promise! Last night my grandma took a care flight to Columbus for emergency surgery, there's a tear in her aorta that runs from the inside of her heart clear to her kidney...yep. But once she was there, they decided that because of the location of the tear they wouldn't do surgery, they have a medication that they can try to use to close the tear...which is very good news. My poor Grandma Sweet is in so much pain!

In other news, I was so happy with Ethan's test results...but it turns out that high potassium has the potential to be oh so bad! He could have diabetes or worse yet kidney failure! The males in my family have kidney problems...my dad and some of the other males in the family were born with just one kidney...very bad if we're faced with kidney failure! But as of right now he's ok! I'm scared for my little man but I'm sure he'll be fine...right?

Update!!

Sanoi 's lung is no longer collapsed...I didn't know it was in the first place...the doc said they have done everything they can for now and the rest is up to little Sanoi...that's a lot of responsibility for such a little one!

My Grandma Sweet did have a heart attack...she's stable but feeling pretty bad! We don't know much more than that but prayers are always appreciated!

The Good the Bad and the Beautiful

THE GOOD : Ethan had blood work done Monday morning to check his for Juvenile Thyroid Disease (not sure what this is exactly but I think it has something to do with his growth). So last night when I got home I had a message from the doctor's office telling me to call them ASAP! Well by the time I got the message, it was too late and they were closed, so this morning I called them first thing and his results are back. They came back...different from what we expected...I figured that he was fine and just smaller than normal kids, or he has full blown thyroid disease and will need medication and maybe someday surgery...nope...none of this...his pattasium levels are high...not through the roof...just high...cut down his banannas...what a strange thing...I figured Ethan could always have a bananna...they're good for you...my mom always calls them the brain food...and pushes them on everyone who walks in the door " Hi, I'm Laura, this is Lou. You're here to sell a vaccuum? would you like a bananna before we get started? No? Are you sure? They are brain food!" Ok, so it was a little exaggerated but pretty darn close! So we have to cut out the pottasium infested foods and go back in one month for another blood draw to see if this is an ongoing thing...who knew there really is a such thing as too much of a good thing!

The Bad : My Grandma Sweet was just taken to the hospital by ambulence...we aren't sure what's going on, the pain is in her heart/lungs/stomach...and they can't find the source...I don't know much more than that...I'll keep you posted!

The Beautiful...and Scary : My new Neice Sanoi...I posted earlier about her...born at 30 weeks on 2/13/08 weighing just 3.5 lbs...She was taken off the majority of her machines and was doing well until last night...she has pneumonia and her heart and lungs won't stay in sink with each other...the doctor says she has taken a turn for the worse...I'm not sure what all of this means but I love this little girl dearly! She is tiny and helpless and I love her. Her family loves her.

Please pray for all three as we go through all of this with unsure footing! Please pray for the doctors and the nurses, the family members and for healing, no matter what God's plan has in store for us.

why you shouldn't pay off the van...

Back in January, I got a check large enough to pay off my van...yup, 3 years early. I was so proud of myself! I love the financial freedom of only having one vehicle payment! So I was all sorts of psyched up about our savings account growing with that additional $300.00 a month! Yippee! But then this month, the day the van payment would have been due (ironic? yes) I put my window down just half way to clean the snow off and to my dismay the window won't go up...to the shop my van goes! They happened to have two cancellations down for that day, while I had it in I might as well have the oil changed and the tires rotated. That afternoon the shop calls me and they can't get my part for my window in until Monday...and by the way, you NEED new tires...mechanic won't release it for the weekend unless you promise to take the van home and park it for the majority of the weekend...ok, no problem...I took the van back in on Monday morning and planned to pick it up that afternoon. I arrived about 5:00 p.m. and walk in...the mechanic sees me and turns three shades of green...'I hate to tell you but you need new breaks' LOL! I'll be back in the shop this time next month getting new breaks...he said that they aren't grinding yet...last night on the way home from Bible study they started grinding! Yuck! So the moral of the story is, it costs more to pay off your van then to keep making that monthly payment! Or better to have not had a vehicle payment on top of all of this happening! God was obviously looking out for me on this one!

Oh so uncomfortable

disclaimer: this post has graphic material and will not be suitable for children and some adults.


If I could skip one thing in all of the adoption...it would have been today. No I didn't like being so nervous I was sick over the homestudy, No I don't like the hoops we've jumped through, No I didn't like giving up my time off and many many lunch hours to get paper work and meetings and appointments done...but I would rather do all of that...some of it twice before I would want to do the class we took...it was the sexual abuse class. I don't mind learning about the abuse and what we'll be dealing with...I don't mind talking publicly about very graphic acts...what worries me is that children have had to endure this...the class exists because children are sexually abused! We had to talk about things these children have been through, about things these children do because of the abuse and things these children will talk about...all because some sicko took this child's innocence! I think talking openly the men were even more uncomfortable than the women. Women tend to watch more Oprah or Dr Phil who will talk about these issues, so they are maybe more comfortable with the subjects...not that it was in ANY way shape or form comfortable but still maybe more comfortable then the men! Poor guys!